How To Backup Your Facebook Data In 5 Easy Steps
Backing up almost everything on your Facebook account is surprisingly straightforward, using Facebook's built-in archival tools.
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Articles tagged "How-To"
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Mon, 8 October 2012
How To Get The Perfect Wallpaper For The Retina iPad
That 2048x1536 retina display on the new iPad is really big in pixel terms. It’s hard to find wallpapers that do it justice, since they…
Wed, 26 September 2012
How To Get Your YouTube Videos Back From Google
Google’s Data Liberation Front keeps adding new ways for Google users to get their personal data out of Google’s services and back…
How Iran Can Make State Censorship Into A Cash Cow
Anywhere in the world, the fastest way to make anything popular is to ban it. Certainly Iran, which actually is an Internet infrastructure…
Tue, 11 September 2012
How To Filter The Social Web On Your Mobile
In this fifth and final installment of our How To Filter The Social Web series, I'm looking at a mobile service called Prismatic. It's a…
Mon, 10 September 2012
Here's How I Tracked News About Andy Murray Today
I'm on the hunt for five great tools to filter the social Web. The fourth product I'm looking at is Bottlenose, a social media dashboard…
Sun, 9 September 2012
How To Filter The Social Web From Your Inbox
I'm on the hunt for five great tools to filter the social Web! Last week I looked at medical news curator Webicina and topic-based news…
Wed, 5 September 2012
How To Filter The Social Web, Part 2: Reddit
This week I'm exploring tools that help filter your Social Web experience. Yesterday I checked out Webicina, a medical news curation…
Tue, 4 September 2012
How To Filter The Social Web, Part 1: Webicina
This week I'm going to be exploring filtering tools on the Web, with a particular focus on general interest topics like health, politics and…
Wed, 22 August 2012
A Lifesaver for Your Brain: Digital Sticky Notes Done Right
Online life is a constant series of interruptions. Some people try to stave off madness by cluttering their desktops with floating windows…
Tue, 21 August 2012
Evernote: A 0-to-60 MPH Guide
Evernote is many things to many people because it’s so powerful. But for the same reason, Evernote’s purpose is vague enough that it can…
Wed, 15 August 2012
Never Lose Another Link: The Uber-Geek's Guide to Reading Online
So I've hacked together a half dozen tools into a method for managing reading madness.
Tue, 14 August 2012
Use This App to Create Anonymous, Disposable Email Addresses
Email addresses are the keys to the kingdom of all our personal data. It’s too bad we had to relearn this lesson last week when…
Thu, 19 July 2012
How to Host Your Data for Less in Iceland's Green Data Centers
Iceland's nascent data center industry, powered by cheap, renewable energy, could be a growth driver in that nation's economic recovery…
Fri, 13 July 2012
How to Migrate a Google+ Profile to a Different Account
Back in October, Google said it was building a migration tool to let users move their Google+ circles and profile from one Google account to…
Mon, 9 July 2012
What Is the Point of: Google+ Hangouts?
Whenever a new Web trend comes along, people ask, “What is the point of this?” If millions of people are using something, there has to…
Fri, 6 July 2012
How to Avoid Getting Kicked Off the Internet by DNSChanger Malware [Video]
A malicious bit of software called DNSChanger has infected hundreds of thousands of computers over the last five years, linking the…
Fri, 22 June 2012
Where To Find Hi-Res Wallpapers To Fit the New MacBook Pro Retina Display
Photo by Eliot Weisberg Do you covet the new retina MacBook Pro? That screen has to be seen to be believed. With an ultra-high…
Wed, 20 June 2012
How To Track Topics On The Web
It's easy to get obsessed with the super-fast, real-time cycle of online news. But don't forget that the Web is a massive treasure trove…
Tue, 15 May 2012
How to Keep Red Tape From Strangling Your Startup
Hell, there are no rules here - we’re trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Edison Many people consider Edison America’s greatest…
Mon, 14 May 2012
Stop Flying Blind: Use Big Data to Benchmark Your Startup
Most startups fail. Nine out of 10 never amount to anything more than fond memories and a forgotten Facebook page. One reason is that they…
Thu, 10 May 2012
Taking Your Startup Back to the Business Basics
Mentoring startups has a lot of benefits: It gives something back to the community and helps other entrepreneurs avoid some of the…
Tue, 8 May 2012
How To Turn a Bookmarklet Into a Nice Firefox Button
If you use Pinterest or Instapaper, you probably click on their bookmarklets fairly often. Lots of popular browser-based applications have…
Fri, 4 May 2012
The 3 (or 4) Character Traits it takes to Create a Successful Startup
Want to know the second most comon question from startup entrepreneurs? (The first, of course, is “Where can I get money?”) It’s…
